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Raspberry Pi XBMC post DUO V1 firmware update
Since updating the firmware on my duo V1, some movie files are no longer being distributed to my raspberry pi V2 efficiently. At the same time, I also had a drive failure, so perhaps the problem is d...
Is the Raspberry Pi using the DLNA server in the NAS? Or is it accessing the media with SMB or NFS?
Its using SMB
You could try measuring the throughput on a windows PC with NAStester ( http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance ). I'd look at disk health also, since a failing disk can kill speeds.
Do you have ssh enabled on the duo?
Even full bluray streaming only requires 7-8 megabytes/second, and even the duo v1 can deliver significantly higher speeds than that.
If everything looks healthy you could try switching to NFS. Most linux boxes get faster speeds with NFS than SMB.
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